ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book centres on organisational and institutional dynamics, understanding, and application. It demonstrates how psychoanalytic ideas can be applied to institutional understanding and social intervention. The book presents a consultation to a mental health centre following the murder of several of its workers by a patient to illustrate how some of the themes manifest themselves in an actual intervention. It addresses the need, as well as the growing willingness, for psychoanalytic societies and institutions to benefit from consultation, as well as the sources of resistance to seeking such help. We live within the box provided by our body and created by our mind. This box establishes the frame, the contents, and the vectors that define and describe our subjectivity, both conscious and unconscious. This box circumscribes our existence in the numerous, barely told ways which psychoanalysis helps us to comprehend.
